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...with rhymer) aims to be not a training school of the professions but a "community of scholars.'' The Episcopal-related college has no departments, and teachers move through the school's three areas-humanities, social sciences and natural sciences-as easily as do the students. The chaplain, for example, teaches drama...
Yale's opinion of the gift is mixed. The university chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., regards glossolalia as a genuine religious experience and as a natural way for students to gain "emotional release" from the tensions of college life. Another New Haven cleric rejects the phenomenon as "a gentlemanly fad." Students mostly take a dim view. "My grandmother had her Ouija board," says one. "My mother had her Bridey Murphy. Now they have this. It's all the same to me." The glossolalists expect skepticism, and respond with a rueful joke: "Maybe this is what...
Takeda, who is senior chaplain at Tokyo's big (9,500 students) St. Paul's University, writes his Christian haiku in Japanese-and, although he knows English, leaves the translation to Gene Lehman, a Pennsylvania-born professor of chemistry at St. Paul's. Lehman's sensitive version of another verse about Lent...
Weeks pass. K. meets "the prison chaplain," who tells him an orphic tale about a man who begs admittance at the door of the Law but is refused. "Try to get in if you wish," the guard invites him, "but note that I am powerful.'' Intimidated, the man sits by the open door for days, months, years. At the end of his life the doorkeeper tells him casually: "This door was intended only for you. I am now going to shut it." Darkness fills the man's eyes. In the darkness he perceives "a radiance that streams...
...dominant mood of the four-day meeting, attended by 1,000 delegates and observers from 65 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish groups, was what one participant called "that awful fatalism.'' The Rev. Will D. Campbell, former chaplain at Ole Miss and an executive of the National Council of Churches, said flatly that "it is too late now for us to establish harmonious relationships between the races on a worldwide scale." In his prepared text, distributed but prudently omitted from the spoken version, Campbell claimed that racial hatred has reached such a pitch that "in our generation white children...